Embodiment as a Lifelong Development presents a non-pathologizing framework that helps readers turn toward the body.

The book explores the inner terrain of embodiment-experiencing and releasing habitual patterns, touching into fluid and energetic sensations, and opening to expanded embodied states-in both somatic and psychological terms. Readers will come away from the book with an understanding of how cultivating a deep embodied immediacy promotes a life of authenticity, vitality, and a participatory attitude toward healing and aging.

This is an accessible guide for researchers, clinicians, and practitioners, illustrated with first-person accounts and somatic practices that will help readers increase body awareness and body-self integration.

Theresa Silow, PhD, LPCC, is a professor of somatic psychology at California Institute of Integral Studies. She has been teaching at the graduate level and conducting a private practice in somatic and trauma psychotherapy for several decades. She has long been guided by the energy and intelligence of the living body.